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WITandWISDOM(tm) - October 20, 1999 ~~~~~~~ THOUGHTS: A wise man sees as much as he should, not as much as he can. - Author Unknown (Lynda Walcker) ~~~~~~~ SPECIAL THOUGHTS: 1662 A.D. - Two thousand ministers were ejected from the Church of England. One of whom was Henry Havers of Catherine Hall, Cambridge. He was being pursued by enemies who sought to arrest him. He looked for escape in a malt house and crawled into the kiln. Immediately afterward, he observed a spider fixing the first line of a large and beautiful web across the narrow entrance. The web being placed directly between him and the light, he was so much impressed with the skill of the insect weaver, that for a while he forgot his own danger. By the time the network had crossed and recrossed the mouth of the kiln in every direction, his pursuers came to search for him. He listened as they approached and distinctly overheard one of them say: "It is of no use to look in there; the old villain can never be there. Look at that spider's web. He could never have got in there without breaking it." - OUR DAY IN THE LIGHT OF PROVIDENCE, Copyright 1921 ~~~~~~~ THIS & THAT: T-SHIRTS SAYINGS From "Bob Levey's Washington" column in the Washington Post. I Fought the Lawn and the Lawn Won (on a field of dandelions) God Made Us Sisters Prozac Made Us Friends If It's Tourist Season Why Can't We Hunt Them? I Used To Be Schizophrenic But We're OK Now Veni, Vedi, Visa: I Came. I Saw. I Did a Little Shopping. Front: Yale Is Just One Big Party Back: With a $25,000 Cover Charge Liberal Arts Major . . . Will Think For Money Gravity . . . It's Not Just a Good Idea. It's the Law. If At First You Don't Succeed, Skydiving Isn't Your Sport Old Age Comes at a Bad Time In America, Anyone Can Be President. That's One of the Risks You Take. First Things First Not Necessarily in That Order (E-zine: HAVE A NICE DAY Mailto:majordomo@bapp.com?body=subscribe%HAND) ~~~~~~~ KEEP SMILING: One day God was looking down at Earth and saw all of the evil that was going on. He decided to send an angel down to Earth to check it out. So he called on a female angel and sent her to Earth for a time. When he returned she told God, yes it is bad on Earth, 95% is bad and 5% is good. Well, he thought for a moment and said maybe I had better send down a male angel; to get both points of view. So God called a male angel and sent him to Earth for a time. When the male angel returned he went to God and told him yes, the Earth was in decline, 95% was bad and 5% was good. God said this was not good. He decided to E-mail the 5% that were good and encourage them, a little something to help them keep going. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Do you know what that E-mail said? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - You didn't get one either? (Heather Eick) ~~~~~~~ TRIVIA: LOBSTER CAMERA I knew it. Once these little computer cameras became cheap enough, people would start pointing them at the silliest things. However, in this case, the incredible research opportunities available from staring at someone's "meal-to-be" are incredible. I found myself hitting "Reload" over and over to keep up with the mind-blowing antics of this ocean beast. A small video camera is enclosed in an underwater housing, attached to the end of a regulation lobster trap. The signal travels over a 60' cable to the dock, where a Iomega Buzz Box gets the image. A Pentium computer running SpyCam software grabs an image every 2 minutes and ftp's it to midcoast.com. http://www.midcoast.com/lobcam/ (E-zine: PREMIUM LINKS Mailto:newsletter@premiumlinks.net?body=subscribe) |